Board public IRC meeting, 29 March, 2011

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Tue Mar 29 20:19:51 UTC 2011


= Fedora Board Meeting - 2011-02-29 =

== Roll Call ==

=== Present ===
Toshio Kuratomi
David Nalley
Jaroslav Reznik (secretary)
Stephen Smoogen
Tom "spot" Callaway
Jared Smith
Jon Stanley

=== Absent ===

=== Regards ===
Máirín Duffy (leave of absense)
Joerg Simon 
Rex Dieter (late, appointment)

== Agenda ==
* Schedule updates
* Ways you can help

== Slip the schedule a week before Beta ==
* Decision to slip the schedule a week before the Beta due to NetworkManager 0.9 update
** Link to the updated schedule is at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/15/Schedule 
* FESCo granted an exception, rel-eng and QA asked for time to properly test intrusive changes 
* Beta 19 April, GA 24 May (assuming no more splits), TC1 today or tmrw 

== Ways you can help! ==
* How contributors can help in getting ready for the Fedora 15 release
** The docs team is always looking for help in getting the various beats of the Release Notes completed
** The Marketing team is looking for people to help write feature profiles and help put together marketing materials for Fedora 15

== F16 naming ==
* Several things combined to mess up F16 naming schedule
** The Board and FPL were slow in vetting the names
** RH legal has taken longer to review the names
* ''ACTION'': jsmith to follow up with RH legal regarding the review of F16 name suggestions
* ke4qqq to act as election wrangler this cycle (if no one else steps up)
** http://rbergero.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-15/f-15-elections.html

== FUDCon EMEA ==
* FPL waiting to hear back from FAMSCo regarding FUDCon EMEA
** Date discussed April 2nd
** FAmSCo ticket #152

== SXSW spin issues ==
* abadger1999 asked how the Board is addressing the issues raised by the SXSW spin
* spot informs:
** the spin was generated by rel-eng
** the art was generated by Fedora Design
** the funding came from Community Arch (should be FAMSCo)
* ke4qqq will update the thread with the message that the board is discussing and will plan to give another status update after next weeks call

== Q&A ==
* gholms: Thanks for doing all the board-y stuff for us all. :)
* Tac asked for ability to set up install with /home on it's own partition to make upgrading "easier"
** Board answered that this issue should be addressed by FESCo as a technical body
* jjmcd_ wanted to thank jsmith for mentioning the beats.  We get much higher quality prose when those the most familiar with the feature explan them
** jds2001 asked if it is not a requirement that feature owners write up release notes for their features
** jjmcd_ aswered yes, that is the expectation, but those relnotes are often omitted or not much more than a placeholder and we have lots changes that aren't features
** rbergeron said she spot for release notes in the feature pages is often filled with one line of very, very basic information
** jreznik said that sometimes it's not easy to write release notes before you have anything in hands and then...
** rbergeron noted that this will likely be part of looking at doing feature process overhaul
* Venemo asked what degree of Fedora branding or other changes (compared to upstream) will we see in F15's gnome-shell?
** spot answered a custom background and some Fedora icons
** jreznik said it is not a question for board but for gnome/design team
** discussion continued on the topic how to make the transition easier for users
** rbergeron wondered if having a small flyer/handout available at conference for folks along the lines of "getting started with Fedora/GNOME3" might be a good idea
* hircus_work asked if is there a reason #fedora-desktop is in GimpNet and not Freenode?
** jsmith answered because upstream gnome discussion happens there

== IRC Log ==
* [http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2011-03-29/fedora-board.2011-03-29-16.00.log.html Full IRC log text]
* [http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-board-meeting/2011-03-29/fedora-board.2011-03-29-16.00.html Meetbot summary]



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